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ONLY THESE REMAIN

by Dee Allen.

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ONLY THESE REMAIN

_________________

 

Only these remain

Anatomical remains.

 

Construction

Sites unearth

Disconnected 

Joints.

 

Only these remain

Skeletal remains.

 

Shellmounds disturbed--

Buried no more.

Bagged, tagged & stored

In a file cabinet drawer.

 

Only these remain

Ancestral remains.

 

Evidence that they

Existed here l...

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Saturday 27th August 2022 4:21 pm

Native Americans   San Francisco Bay Area U.S.A.   fossil excavation   tribe displacement   violation of burial sites   colonialism

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